The responsible pleasure returns.
Kerry Washington has teased her upcoming “Desperate Housewives” reboot for the primary time since information of the mission acquired backlash from followers of the unique collection.
The “Scandal” actress, 48, mentioned the brand new present, titled “Wisteria Lane,” throughout an interview on “The View” Friday. However whereas co-host Ana Navarro pressed Washington for particulars, there was solely a lot she was prepared to share.
“This one I’m very excited about!” Navarro, 53, pushed. “One of my favorite shows, it’s rumored you’re working on a remake of ‘Desperate Housewives’ that’s going to be called ‘Wisteria Lane.’ Tell us more!”
“I can’t say too much, it’s very newly announced, in development!” Washington, who was joined by her “Shadow Force” co-star Omar Sy, responded. “The idea is that it’s new times. There are new challenges.”
“It’s like, what happens on that cul-de-sac now?” she added. “It’s really exciting.”
When Navarro requested for much more information in regards to the “Desperate Housewives” remake, Washington refused.
“I can’t say any more!” the “Little Fires Everywhere” actress insisted.
“Desperate Housewives” initially ran for eight seasons on ABC from 2004 to 2012. The Marc Cherry-created dramedy starred Teri Hatcher (Susan Mayer), Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo), Marcia Cross (Bree Van de Kamp) and Eva Longoria (Gabrielle Solis).
Set on the mysterious cul-de-sac Wisteria Lane, it adopted Hatcher, Huffman, Cross and Longoria’s characters as they navigated their romantic lives, private struggles and secrets and techniques.
13 years after the unique collection led to Might 2012, it was introduced that Washington and the Disney-owned Onyx Collective have been growing a reboot of the comedy-drama-mystery collection with showrunner Natalie Chaidez.
The “Desperate Housewives” remake might be a “fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery” set round “a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul-de-sac called ‘Wisteria Lane,’” in accordance with Selection.
“On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream,” a abstract of the reboot continued. “Beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway – but behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts, are secrets.”
However not everyone was as excited as Navarro after information of the reboot was formally introduced on Tuesday, as a result of followers of the unique collection rushed to social media to pan Washington and the concept of “Wisteria Lane.”
“Stop ruining the classics and come up with something original,” one fan wrote on X.
“No,” one other individual commented. “Bring back the originals.”
Different critics in contrast the “Desperate Housewives” remake to HBO’s “Sex and the City” sequel collection, “And Just Like That,” which acquired blended critiques each upon and following its launch in 2021.
“The same thing that happened to sex and the city is about to happen to desperate housewives,” one individual tweeted.
Longoria mentioned a “Desperate Housewives” revival only one night time earlier than “Wisteria Lane” was introduced. She mentioned Cherry would wish the “most convincing” to carry the unique collection again.
“Marc Cherry, our creator,” Longoria mentioned throughout “What What Happens Live” on Monday. “He feels like we’ve exhausted the characters.”
“Unlike ‘Sex and the City,’ which was only like six episodes, eight episodes a year, we did 24 episodes a year for a decade,” she continued. “I can’t sleep with any more people on that street. I have slept with every person on the street.”
